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...number one match, Harvard's Romer Holleran beat Richard Beams, 15-3, 15-5, 15-10. Number two man Terry Robinson followed by downing John Rapport, 15-7, 15-5, 15-10. All nine matches were won in three straight games...
Instead of seeking rapport with his members, McDonald grew increasingly aloof. He golfed with steel executives, used his $50,000 salary (he also gets a generous expense account) to patronize nightclubs from Manhattan to Los Angeles and in many other ways enjoy the good life. In addition to his seven-room fieldstone home in a Pittsburgh suburb, he bought a second house in Palm Springs, and spent much of his time there...
...Rapport. Oceanfront stores do a roaring trade in mawkish mementos, such as "the J.F.K. Drinking Glass," a tumbler adorned with a sky-blue caricature of the late President, J.F.K. chocolate-filled gold coins (10?), and a posthumous J.F.K. prayer ("Special Delivery from Heaven," $2.95 gift-boxed). Other big-selling souvenirs include martini shakers cunningly shaped like bedpans, rubber and nylon "Golden Goddess Shrunken Heads," and a coffee-table plaque that reads: GOD BLESS THIS LOUSY APARTMENT. Vacationers stand in line for rococo delicacies ranging from frankfurters stewed in champagne (it says) to chocolate-covered frozen bananas...
...sense of self-importance were not only dissipated by decentralization, but also by delegates' horror tales of price gouging nightclubs, bad, rude restaurants, and Charles Addams accommodations. Above all, perhaps, the fault lay in what one big-D Democrat called "Atlantic City's total lack of rapport with the middle-class mind...
...many lonely nights they spent in the years when she and Lyndon campaigned or politicked with congressional cronies. "That has been one of the costs," Lady Bird says. "It is one of the bills you have to pay for the job your husband has." Yet the rapport between mother and daughters is natural, giggly and girlish. Still, she has to be mindful of the special security precautions that plague the family's every move. Instead of reminding Luci to take her sweater, as an average mother would, Lady Bird often chides her daughter, "Now Luci, don't forget...